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High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic Hardcover – 1 May 1993

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Focused on the field of knowledge lying between digital and analog circuit theory, this new text will help engineers working with digital systems shorten their product development cycles and help fix their latest design problems. KEY TOPICS: The scope of the material covered includes signal reflection, crosstalk, and noise problems which occur in high speed digital machines (above 10 megahertz). MARKET:This volume will be of practical use to digital logic designers, staff and senior communications scientists, and all those interested in digital design.

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    1 May 1993

  2. Dimensions

    18.03 x 3.05 x 23.88 cm

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Focusing on a combination of digital and analog circuit theory, this comprehensive volume will help engineers who work with digital systems, shorten their product development cycles, and fix their latest high-speed design problems.

  • Covers signal reflection, crosstalk, and noise problems that occur in high-speed digtal machines (above 10 megahertz).
  • lncludes checklists that ask the questions an experienced designer would about a new system.
  • Offers useful formulas for inductance, capacitance, resistance, rise time, and Q.
  • Explains the trade-offs between signal cross talk, mechanical fabrication of tolerances, and trace routing density.
  • Presents a methodology for determining how many layrs will be required to route a printed circuit board.

About the Author

Howard W. Johnson is president of Olympic Technology Group, Inc., of Redmond, Washington, a digital electronic design and consulting organization. Before founding the firm, he was Manager of Technology and Advanced Development at Ultra Network Technologies, a manufacturer of gigabit-per-second local area networks for supercomputers. Since obtaining his Ph.D. in 1982 from Rice University, he has specialized in the design of high-speed digital communications and digital signal processing systems.

Martin Graham has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley since 1966, where he teaches the design of reliable and manufacturable electronic systems.


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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prentice Hall; 1st edition (1 May 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0133957241
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0133957242
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 3.05 x 23.88 cm
  • Best Sellers Rank: 66,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
    • 5 in Computer Hardware Design
    • 14 in Circuit Design
    • 17 in Digital Design (Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must buy for design Engineers

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I read about this book online and straight away ordered it. I was amazed to see the details mentioned in the book.
Indeed it is a book of black magic

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Reviewed in Spain on 18 April 2019

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Si quieres aprender sobre diseño digital HW de alta velocidad, éste es tu libro. Un must

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice one!

Reviewed in India on 29 January 2017

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Best book for learning signal integrity for high speed PCB Design. Concepts are clearly explained in intuitive way .

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for those in the field

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Good reference handbook, but not foundational